Pholoe, JOHNSTON, 1839: 437

PHOLOE JOHNSTON, 1839: 437 View in CoL

Type species: Pholoe inornata Johnston, 1839 , by monotypy; Wolf, 1984: 25-4; Pettibone, 1992: 4; Blake, 1995: 178; Barnich & Fiege, 2003: 107; Meissner et al., 2017: 240–241.

Diagnosis (according to Meissner et al., 2017): Prostomium fused to the first segment and withdrawn into anterior segments; anteriorly deeply incised, with median antenna on ceratophore in this incision; lateral antennae present or absent. Inarticulate ventral palps present. Papilliform or antenna-like facial tubercle present or absent. Eyes present, sometimes fused or absent. Pharynx with two pairs of jaws and nine dorsal and nine ventral marginal papillae. Nuchal organ unknown. First segment with two pairs of tentacular cirri rising from tentaculophore; achaetous. Elytra paired, present on segments 2 (chaetiger 1), 4 (3), 5 (4), 7 (6) and continuing on alternate segments to 23 (22), thereafter on every segment. Cirriform dorsal cirri absent. Ventral cirri present. Parapodia biramous, both rami with conical acicular lobes. Simple, slender capillaries, distally spinose notochaetae of two types: shorter, strongly bent (geniculate) and longer, slightly curved or straight; compound unidentate and falcate neurochaetae. Pygidium with pair of anal cirri; anus usually terminal.